Caray, Caray!

And we’re back with Esteban offering Paz a job. She is all flustered, he explains she could handle the catering for an office event he’s planning. She says she has actually has a Chef training, but the idea of a fancy event scares her. No worries, Esteban is sure they can do great things together… for his company, that is.

People arrive to eat, but Paz must explain to them she has some issues for now and won’t be serving any food. She’s sad to lose the customers, Esteban tries to give her a huge tip. She refuses, this is much more than what the food actually cost. He waxes poetic about food nurturing the soul and gives her his contact information. They can start with his event and then maybe they can work together long term. And if she needs a hand with her restaurant, he can send a company lawyer to help. This gesture convinces Paz good men still exist.

And off he goes, big smiles on both their faces.

Ginebra is furious because having a kid didn’t help her get her hands on her husband’s money. What a waste of time and what a death sentence for Elias, she actually says. Mauro is worried about Sam, she’s just a child, she doesn’t deserve this. Ginebra couldn’t care less, the kid is a means to an end, and he has to continue with their plan.

Mireya is cornered by two goons in a dark alley. They plan to get reimbursed for the money Vermin still owes them. As the big nasty goon Rubio tries to abuse her, Mireya is barely saved by some police sirens. She is left alone, crying in the alley, feeling completely humiliated.

Paz tries to call her sister with the bad news about the restaurant being closed. Dona Lupe arrives, and she tells her instead. What are they supposed to do now?

Another scene of Ginebra abusing  her daughter, this time because Sam dared have a cookie. When she cries, Ginebra wants to take her stuffed rabbit away, but she is caught by Elias. He defends his daughter, gives her back her bunny. He notices Sam has a bruise, the girl says she hurt herself. Ginebra lies that she is only “taking care” of their daughter.

Elias asks Sam to go to her room so he can talk to her mom.

Ginebra tries to play the victim, but it looks like Elias has had enough, he realizes how she’s treating their daughter, what’s wrong with her? Ginebra says she gave him the daughter he always dreamed of, but she never got what she wanted from him. She takes care of his daughter all day long, he will never understand all the work she has to do to keep the family afloat. And she’s not even part of his will. Boohoo.

Elias gets fooled by Ginebra’s rather obvious manipulation, says he named her executor in his will, but she must make a better effort to get along with Sam. Ginebra keeps going with the devoted mother and wife act.

Enzo (or is it Kenzo?) and Nandy of the blond strands of hair flirt in the barrio (she is doing more of the flirting than he is). She notices he’s not wearing a wedding ring; he says he’s divorced. Some sparks fly.

Sam is playing in her room when Mauro arrives. She can’t wait to leave for her trip with her parents. Sadly tio Mau can’t go, he has a lot of work to do. He obviously loves Sam.

Paz asks her mom if she should accept Esteban’s help. Dona Lupe says he’s a good guy and it’s not like they have a choice. Paz says she will go back to selling tacos on her bike also, she can’t sit around doing nothing.

Salomon arrives and Paz asks him whatever happened with his novia, Gema, because her madrina came and closed their business. Salomon didn’t think things would turn out this way, he’s so sorry.

Mireya gets home and tells the family that Rubio tried to rape her. Salomon wants to go after him, but he’s stopped, he could get into trouble, too.

Some guy-talk between Esteban and Enzo about Paz. He likes her, Enzo thinks it could be more, but Esteban says she is just nice, she told him about the big tragedy of having her daughter taken from her. And she helped him reconnect with his humble origins in the pueblo where he was born and remember the daily struggle. Enzo realizes he plans to keep seeing her, Esteban pnly admits to wanting to help .

Enzo met a woman, too, and while Esteban is supportive and says it was high time he met someone, Enzo is pretty adamant he and Nandy can only be friends.

Later Esteban and the kids are in the chapel for Berenice’s service. He missed dinner because he had car trouble. Both Gala and Bosco look guilty, and Esteban is upset because they lied to him, what happened to the car, were they drinking? Gala says no, she just had an accident. She apologizes, but he’s disappointed because they could have hurt themselves. They are both grounded. There is no need to lie to the people you love, never forget that.

They go sit on a bench, talk to their mom. They all miss her so much.

Elvira arrives to demand an explanation! Will Esteban confess that he killed his wife already?

As the kids leave to avoid the conflict, Elvira continues with her nasty accusations. His mother should be so ashamed for having giving birth to such a man.

Esteban would like to avoid fighting in the chapel, he won’t tolerate one more insult from her. Elvira swears to make him pay!

Mireya can’t get over what almost happened to her. Paz blames herself, Lupe rightfully blames Vermin. Paz wants to call the police about the attack and has made up her mind: they need to improve their lives.

Ginebra, playing the perfect mom, is on her way to the country house with Elias and Samara. Oh, how much fun they are going to  have together!

They are attacked by masked men wanting to kidnap Samara. Ginebra and Elias are dragged from the car (and Ginebra actually looks scared until she demands the goons to take her instead, so she’s obviously faking).

They then grab Sam, chloroform her and put her in the back of a car, while Elias screams. One of the goons helps Ginebra stand up, she smiles and goes to face her husband.

She tells him how much she hates him, she only married him for his money but she never cared for him. She only got pregnant to get him to marry her, but she never loved their daughter, either, she was always pretending.

Elias is shocked by her treachery. She grabs a gun, points it at him and adds that Sam is not even their real daughter, that one died and the kid they raised is just a nobody that she stole. Elias doesn’t even have the time to register all of this because she then kills him in cold blood, a single gunshot to the head.

Her voice as even as ever, she then orders the goons not to touch the body.

Mauro arrives and sees Samara asleep in the back of the car. He sighs.

Ginebra asks him to slap her over the face because she must appear as a victim, too. He refuses at first, but he eventually punches her (and it’s quite satisfying to watch). Then she asks one of the goons to shoot her in the arm, make it even more believable.

Mauro is opposed to this madness, but he does nothing to stop it. Now Ginebra wants to be left alone, otherwise the plan won’t work. She only asks that her brother take Samara and kill her. Kill her!

Everyone leaves and Ginebra dramatically falls to the ground, next to Elias.

Paz is at a support group for parents who lost their kids. They are all wearing t-shirts of missing kids (and I believe these are real cases, so by the end of the scene I’m sobbing).

Paz explains how especially bad this week has been for her, because it was her daughter’s birthday and her family has so many problems, she can’ take it anymore, she must stay strong for everyone. One of the other moms asks her to go ahead and just have a good cry, it will help her some.

Paz says she doesn’t even have a picture of her daughter, she never got the chance to meet her or hold her. May God give them strength to keep going.

They hug it out and Paz remembers the conversation she had with Esteban about her baby and his encouragements.

Back at the house, Elvira shows Esteban the video she got, he furiously says it’s obviosuly a fake, why would anyone send this after six years have passed, his conscience is clean. He didn’t kill Berenice, but if she’s so certain he did, then go to the police. Whoever sent her this video is trying to manipulate her and her pain is so big, she is being blinded and so easily fooled. She needs to forget her prejudice and together they need to figure out who killed Bere and is trying to destroy them.

What reason would he have to kill the woman he loved? Elvira thinks he could be after the money, slaps him when he calls her loca. The kids are listening for a bit from behind the door, but then they leave, as they don’t understand what is being said.

Back to the fighting, Elvira says she’s coming back to live in the big house. Esteban isn’t against the idea, he’s sure the kids would love to have her around. And she can even have an office at the company if she’d like one. She reminds him she’s the owner, he says yeah, but he’s the one in charge and he has a word to say. He’s always been a good father and leader.

Elvira swears she will drag him to jail as soon as she can prove the video is not a fake. And she will take the kids away from him, too. Esteban can’t wait for the day she has to swallow her words and admit how wrong she’s been.

Later Esteban is alone, remembering sweet moments with his wife, asking her for guidance. He’s hugging her portrait as Paz calls to accept his proposal. She really needs the money for this and that and she rambles in a cute way for a bit.

Esteban offers to stop by the restaurant to explain to her what the new job will be about. It’s a deal.

Paz, Lupe and Nandy all try to encourage Mireya, they will always stand by her. And they will always survive together. Mireya feels guilty for what happened, maybe it was the way she was dressed or maybe she’s done something… Paz and Nandy make it clear she is not to blame! Mireya decides she needs to be strong. For their family!

There is a knock at the door, Esteban arriving to talk to Paz.

The goons placed Samara in a sealed box that they pushed down the hill. We can see her inside, and we know she’s not dead because of the first few seconds of the first capitulo. No actual real person would survive this fall, but in novela land why not?

Mauro asks them to stop and leave him alone for now.

As he goes down to the box, he remembers his sister’s instructions: Samara will officially be declared missing and she will play the destroyed mother, crying to all the press about her loss. But Mauro can’t leave any traces of the kid, he needs to burn the box with Samara inside. He says getting to the fortune won’t be so easy and they won’t be able to pull anything like this ever again because all eyes will be on them. This is exactly what Ginebra wants, because they will control the narrative and the people will believe what she will want them to believe. She will be the poor widow who lost the two people she loved the most. All that Mauro has to do is burn that box.

Back in the woods, he starts pouring gasoline on the box, with Samara still unconscious inside.

Ginebra is walking by the side of the road when she meets some people and tells them her husband was killed. Then she “faints”.

Esteban and Paz are done talking about his event and he presses how important it is that everything goes well, his work depends on it. No pressure, right? They shake on it just as Vermin shows up, freed from jail. Paz looks frozen.

Labels: receta

Permalink posted by Adriana Noel @ 4:46 AM